Tag Archives: Audience Behaviour

Do event outcomes affect how we rate their coverage? CNN IBN and US Elections 2012

Media feeds on elections. Counting and results declaration is when news becomes a “mass audience” genre, and the US Election results night more globally so is such a mass audience event. As I write, Obama has just been declared victorious. Apart … Continue reading

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Facebook ads impact is just more ‘measurable’ than TV ads, not necessarily ‘effective’

They have been talking for a while about the death of the 30 second commercial. And social media were not the first technologies that inspired such claims.Yet, the size of Facebook with its tightly connected ‘anatomy’ has made these claims … Continue reading

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Lets Abuse TAM Data: Indian TV Industry

An example that illustrates how one should be careful when reading television audience ratings data. Continue reading

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One cent per character : Will celebrities help Twitter monetise?

So as expected twitter has finally started talking more concretely about its revenue strategies interestingly they have taken to advertising (promoted tweets) as the primary driver along with some exploration into paid accounts. This is an article that talks about … Continue reading

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Beyond counting audiences: A bold attempt in the Indian GEC space

The recent ‘character India Loves’ study released by Ormax media demonstrates that capturing viewers tastes and preferneces is as important as measuring viewer numbers. Unfortunately industry has been laying emphasis only on the latter till now Continue reading

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